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How Nurses Can Protect Their Mental Health: Smart Self-Care Strategies to Prevent Burnout

Minority Nurse

Nurses must take deliberate steps toward self-care, not as a luxury but as a necessity for staying grounded and effective. The following strategies offer a comprehensive approach for healthcare professionals to safeguard their mental health and maintain resilience in a demanding field.

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Transforming Healthcare Delivery: The Importance of Top-of-License Utilization

Daily Nurse

Visit the units, participate in shared governance meetings, and open direct lines of communication so you can best understand the day-to-day challenges nurses are facing and identify the biggest issues that need to be addressed. This sense of purpose helps combat burnout and improve retention.

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Beyond the Bedside: Building Financial and Emotional Security as a Minority Home Health Nurse

Minority Nurse

Over time, these pressures can wear down your mental health and make it harder to sustain a fulfilling career. When burnout takes hold, it impacts everything: your performance, your relationships with patients, and your overall well-being. Start by documenting your visits.

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It’s Not You: How to Cope with Microaggressions in the Workplace

Minority Nurse

Microaggressions about someone’s race, ethnicity, or skills can seem like a small problem, but they’re harmful to nursesmental health. While they don’t seem obvious to non-minority nurses, BIPOC nurses feel the ramifications through burnout and decreased work performance.

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Small Patients, Big Discoveries

Penn Nursing

“We’ve adjusted and structured the curriculum to focus on the lifespan of a patient’s health,” says assistant professor Amanda Bettencourt, PhD, APRN, CCRN-K, ACCNS-P, Gr’19. Nurses Help NursingBurnout” is an omnipresent word in nursing today. Sometimes we serve as their only health care provider.”

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Four Creative Ways to Start a Journaling Habit

Minority Nurse

Use this method to document life events, advice, or quotes that inspire you. Or, if you don’t like to write, you can consider other methods, like art journaling. Art journaling can be a way to express your creativity through color, paint, or another type of art medium.

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Nursing Shortage: A 2024 Data Study Reveals Key Insights

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

The Impact of the Nursing Shortage Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses 12 The nursing shortage of skilled RNs entering and remaining in the workforce affects patient care and other members of the healthcare team. 6 No healthcare system can function without skilled nurses. 17 The U.S.